Storage battery



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J. D. RIVELY. STORAGE BATTERY.

No. 595,208. Patented Dec. 7,1897.

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J. D. RIVELY.

STORAGE BATTERY No. 595,208. Patented Dec. 7,1897.

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JOHN D. RIVELY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE ELEOTROSTORAGE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, OF WEST VIRGINIA.

sTo RAG E BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,208, dated December '7, 1897.

Application filed February 19, 1897. Serial No. 624,104. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: lar parts throughout the several views, in

Be it known that 1, JOHN D. RIVELY, a citiwhich zen of the United States of America, residing Figure 1 is a perspective view with the cover at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and removed and the casin g partly broken away to State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain show the arrangement of the different layers new and useful Improvementsin Storage Batof plates and connections with the saddles. teries, of which the following is a specifica- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the saddle. tion, reference being had therein to the ac- Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the stay-bolts, companying drawings. 7 partly broken away and showing a portion to This invention relates to certain new and of the casing. Fig. at is a perspective view of usefulimprovements in storage batteries, and the perforated portion of one of the feedhas for its object to construct a battery of pipes. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of this class wherein the electrodes will be insuthe dividing-plates. Fig. 6 is a perspective lated from one another and which will afford view of the battery. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal I 5 the greatest practical surface exposure and sectional view of the same. Fig. Sis a transfreer circulation of the current. verse vertical sectional view.

A further object of the invention is to pro- I first provide a casing a, which is composed vide means whereby the active material or of hard rubber or other suitable insulating lead oxid and asbestos layers may be permitmaterial, and arranged on the bottom of this 20 ted to expand and contract and act independcasing are a series of plates Z), which are also ently of each other and further prevent the composed of hard rubber or other suitable inbuekling or bursting of the active material. sulating material. On top of these plates 1) The invention further consists of a series and in engagement with the same are placed of plates, composed of lead, aluminium, or the asbestos plates 0, provided with an aper- 2 5 other suitable material, arranged horizonture d, extending in alinement with the plate tally with alternate layers of oxid and asbesto receive the metallic pipes e, which serves tos, chemically prepared with acids, chlorids, both as a feed-pipe and a conductor of the and the like, and employed to excite the accurrent from one cell to another, the portion of tive material, which is attached to a saddle which extending through the asbestos plates 30 arranged at a suitable point. is provided with a series of perforations f,

A still further object of my invention is to these feed-pipes being preferably composed construct a storage battery whereby the efliof aluminium, though other suitable material ciency of the same is raised to a perfect re-' may be employed. On top of the asbestos sult and the life of the battery is prolonged plates is placed an aluminium plate g, and on 3 5 through the arrangement of the different ditop of the aluminium plate g is placed an oxid visions and the electromotive force is in plate h, the layers being carried out in this creased. order to any extent desired, the top or upper Still further objects of my invention reside plate I) of each series being preferably comin the novel construction, combination, and posed of hard rubber. This top plate b, the

40 arrangement of parts, the conducting-plates base-plate Z), and each of the aluminium and being thoroughly insulated from each other rubber plates are provided with an extension and the expansion and contraction of the ac end which engages in a saddle 70, provided tive material or oXid and asbestos being com with a binding-post 7a to receive the Wire l of pensated for by the arrangement of construethe negative current.

5 tion, as will be more fully described, and par- The series of asbestos, aluminium, and oxid 5 tic-ularly pointed out in the claims. plates above the hard-rubber plate Z) are In describing the invention in detail referformed in sections and divided by means of once is had to the accompanying drawings, vertically-arranged hard-rubber plates l, or forming a part of this specification, and these plates may be composed of any material 50 wherein like letters of reference indicate simiperforming the same purpose as the hard rub- I00 her, said plates being provided with apertures Z to receive the perforated ends of the feedpipes extending through the asbestos plates. The plates are held in contact with each other by means of stay or fastening bolts 'm, extending through the bottom of the casing a and through overhanging portions 5 of the plate' I), where they are secured by nuts m or other suitable means, and arranged between these nuts m and the plate I) are springs 12 to compensate for the expansion of the asbestos plates.

In the illustration of the battery given in Fig. 1 I have shown three series of these plates and by means of the dividing-plates l forming twelve cells, though any-number of these cells may be arranged that may be desired, and the connections to the saddles are all the same, so that the same referenceletters have been employed, the end of the battery having two saddles when three series of plates are provided, carrying binding-posts n to receive the wires 0 0 from the positive The feed-pipes e e are provided at, their outer ends with vertically-extendingportions 6, communicating with each feedpipe 6 to feed the solution thereto, these be-; ing arranged at each end of the battery, as is electrode.

required by the number of series of plates.

By the construction of the series of plates of oxid, asbestos, and aluminium and the perforated pipes passing through the asbestos plates it will be seen that the solution pass ing through the feed-pipes will circulate from the perforated ends of same into the asbestos plates and into contact with the active material, thereby increasing the efficiency of the same, and the expansion and contraction caused by the asbestos plates is compensated for in the springs arranged between the upper plate and the nuts of the securing stays or bolts. This expansion and contraction is also compensated for by means of the curved extension ends of the plates engaging in the saddles, as by this construction the same will be prevented from breaking through the expansion.

As previously stated herein, I do not wish to limit myself to any number of the plates that may be thus placed in series, as it will be observed that any number of cells desired may thus be provided, and also that various other changes may be made in the details of 3 construction Without departing from the general spirit of my invention. Y

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let'- ters Patent, is'- 1. In a storage battery, the combination of the series of electrodes arranged horizontally within said casing, a vertically-arranged insulating-plate in the casing dividing said se= ries into cells, a metallic perforated feed-pipe connecting said cells and forming a path for the current from one cell to the other and suitable connection between said electrodes and the binding-post carried by the casing substantially as described.

In a storage battery consisting of a casing, a series of plates of rubber, asbestos,

? aluminium and active material arranged hori- 

